GOP steers deficit talk to focus on tax cut

ANDREW TAYLOR and MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press

Originally published February 14, 2018 at 03:44a.m., updated February 14, 2018 at 03:44a.m.

The White House budget director went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion-dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan.